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Senate Republican leaders said Tuesday they would push ahead with a vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act early next week even as GOP defections made it clear the effort would fail. The point of Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s unusual decision may be to allow the Senate to move on quickly from the health debate after a turbulent monthslong effort to roll back the ACA. The defections on the repeal measure made two major GOP health efforts thwarted by internal opposition in less than 24 hours; a...